Mailing to lots of e-mail addresses

[Anon]

Hi

I have a file with e-mail addresses of my customers (one address per line).

How can I write a PHP script that will send a specific e-mail (e.g. $message) to every e-mail address in that file (even if the e-mail addresses are invalid and return errors)?

Please note that I will NOT use this for SPAM, but for sending a newsletter to customers.

Regards

Peter

[knickerlas]

Heres the pseudo code I'd start reswarching were it me.

read all the newlines into an array
foreach($address as $adr) {
 $to.=",$adr";
}

you just need to get the to part of mail into a comma seperated list of recipients. I can already see a problem with the first entry to the list in my pseudo code but I hope this gives you a direction to follow at least 🙂

Nick

[Anon]

As Nick stated, build an array of your email addresses and then simply use a for loop with the mail() function until all the emails have been sent. I currently use this method and it works fine. It may take some time depending on how many emails you are sending, but it will work.

[Anon]

<?
function getallmails($filename)
{
$fp=file($filename);
$ctr=0;
while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fp)) {
$ctr++;

if(mail($line,"hello this is my subject","hello this is my matter","From: [e-mail]"))
{
echo ("mail Send to ". $line);
}

}

}

getallmails("mailfile.txt");
?>
mailfile.txt
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[toma42]

Tighter code

function sendmassmail($filename)
{
foreach (file($filename) as $email) {
echo (mail($email, 'subject', 'body', 'headers')) ? "Mail sent to $email\n": "Error sending mail to $email\n";
}

sendmassmail("mailfile.txt");